[bogwog]

F.U.D. drove the world crazy during Y2K despite it not being an actual problem. Maybe we need a little bit of that here?

[Lendal]

The difference being that in the 90's we actually did things to prevent Y2K from becoming a problem.

[paulddraper]

Yes, that's what you found out when you stripped away the hysteria.

[Cthulhu_]

And when there was a hole in the ozone layer, for the first time ever the whole world agreed on a measure to stop it. That too was a global climate problem.

[jmull]

> despite it not being an actual problem

How do you figure that?

Not that there wasn't plenty of ignorant hysteria. But there was also a lot of real mitigation work. A lot of stuff didn't break on 1/1/2000 because we fixed the bugs before then.